Custom Dictionary Syncronization with Dropbox

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been using Microsoft Word 2010 a lot more than I’ve previously done, and at the same time I’ve been switching computers a lot making it somewhat of an annoyance that a lot of the words I use in my documents are not recognized and marked with a wiggly red line underneath it.

If only there was a way to keep the custom dictionary synchronized between computers.

And guess what? There is. To the cloud!

Setting up custom dictionary synchronization between several computers is pretty easy to set up, at least if you have a Dropbox account. If you don’t, sign up now via this affiliate link to give me some extra space to play with at the same time.

Find your existing custom.dic file. Custom.dic is the local file Microsoft Office keeps your custom additions to the standard dictionary in. Usually it’s located in C:\Users{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\UProof.